Elements of the Art of Dyeing; With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by Oxymuriatic Acid ...translated from the French, with notes and engravings, illustrative and supplementary by Andrew Ure by BERTHOLLET, Vlaude-Louis - 1824

London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2 vols. 8vo., xxviii, 408 pp.; vii, 453 pp., 9 engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary half cloth. - Lawrie 55. Ron, Bib. Tinctoria, 101. Manning 10; Duveen, p.74 (for 1st) - Second Edition ("Although the pigments Berthollet considers were for the dyeing industry, some were also used for paining. Originally published in Paris in 1791, the first edition is listed as no. 9 in Edelstein's "Thirteen key books in the history of dyeing and bleaching" (Historical notes on the history of the wet processing industry, 1972, p. 85, where he calls this "the first modern book on dyeing and the first general theory of its principles.") This is the second English edition, translated from the second French edition of 1804 by Andrew Ure. There was a previous English translation by William Hamilton in London in 1791. This is the first edition of the Ure translation.